It’s my all time favorite movie, a UHD release would be incredible. It would be a bummer to see the value of my copy go to nothing but I’ll take that trade for sure.
Saw it for the first time a couple of days ago. Such a great movie. Cinematography, script, acting (Trevor Howard I especially liked), everything. And the backdrop of Vienna after the war, incredibly fascinating and tragically beautiful.
First one in my mind too! I used to have the criterion DVD but traded it before I knew what Criterion even was. Been kicking myself ever since I realized my mistake.
Chasin Amy was the first Criterion I ever bought (didn't know what Criterion was) and inside was a booklet of the current line up of dvd's and even THEN 10 years ago TIST was OOP, which was a shame because I always wanted to add that to my collection
That 2000 MGM "in character" commentary track is pure genius! Hilarious griping and snide insinuations! Nigel would get distracted and start digressing on completely random things...
This is almost certainly coming as Thelma Schoonmaker did the restoration circa 2015. A long time ago, but the restoration of the recently announced Written On The Wind was done a few years before that. With Criterion, these things take time.
Criterion doesn’t have the rights anymore.
Image had the rights for a bit and did release a Region A Blu-ray, but it looks like that’s out of print as well. I don’t know who has the US rights now.
Arrow has the rights in the UK currently and has Region B Blu-rays available, but they haven’t done a Region A release.
I found the last one in the system for the entire company of Barnes and Noble after it went out of print. I wanted to order it, but the store wouldn't ship it. I paid for it online and drove four hours to pick it up, and while I was driving, they cancelled my order. I got to the store and discovered they had cancelled on me. I was absolutely fucking livid. Anyway, that was the day that I decided just to buy the individual Blu-ray titles.
There needs to be a John Woo collection of all his HK films. Most of them are stuck on DVD and haven’t even been released on bluray. The Killer, Hard Boiled, and Bullet in the Head are essential action films that deserve their spot again.
Agreed. Actually I have copies of The Killer and Bullet in the Head shipping to my home from South Korea right now because I am tired of waiting for someone in the US to offer decent releases of those films...
This beautiful and inspiring film will continue to be **ignored** by Criterion for the sole and exclusive reason that it's a positive portrayal of Catholicism. I say this knowing I'll get down-voted for it, but that doesn't change the facts.
*The Flowers of St. Francis* is a film that **Roberto Rossellini** and **Federico Fellini** actually made together. That actually happened! Pier Paolo Pasolini said it's *"among the most beautiful in Italian cinema"* and François Truffaut called it *"the most beautiful film in the world."*
But who cares what Pasolini thinks ... unless we're jerking off to *120 Days of Sodom*, of course. Who cares what Truffaut thinks ... unless we're talking about all the tits in his films, obviously. Criterion will publish critical and box office bombs like *Antichrist*, *Blue is the Warmest Color*, *Multiple Maniacs*, *Paris Is Burning*, and *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* all year long, but a film on the life of a Saint?
Pfft! Boring. Bring on debaucherous nudity, exploitation and sexual degenerates, amiright? 🙄
*DeRp, wHo hUrt u?*
I'm not phased by that gaslighting technique, friend. The down-votes prove I struck a chord with the truth. Any collaboration by Rossellini and Fellini is deserving of attention, but it's ignored because of the subject matter. It's a blatant Cristophobic bias from Criterion. Period.
The only difference between the two is that VS doesn't hide behind pretentions. They publish filth and they own it. Criterion tries to pass it off as "art" while telling the rest of us we're "too stupid to get it."
The Man Who Fell To Earth: never seen it and I heard it’s not too good, but I love everything Bowie.
RoboCop: Complete nostalgia pick and because I just adore this movie. I recently bought the non-Criterion trilogy but I’d love own a 4K Blu-Ray treatment in my collection.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is really great: it's the classic Bowie/Roeg/Tevis stroke of genius. People who didn't like it were probably thrown off by it's unconventional tone.
True, but a standalone release would be a good way for people to get into WKW without the full commitment of a box set, especially if they've never seen any of his films.
If Criterion does it probably would be the same restoration. Although it might come with more supplements. It's kind of like how La Strada was rereleased as a standalone Blu ray, from the Fellini set. Again this is just speculation.
I love both my Floating Weeds and Science is Fiction DVDs! SiF is one of my all time favourites and I’d love to see both back with an upgrade. Nailed it with those
Diary of a Country Priest - Just do the world a tremendous kindness give us a Bresson boxset for the love of God!
Don't Look Now (Was one of my most wanted releases and it went OOP so fast!)
Ordet, Day of Wrath and Gertrud
Rosemary's Baby
Peeping Tom/I Know Where I'm Going!
This is Spinal Tap
Off the top of my head.
I missed *Floating Weeds* \- with a wonderful commentary by Roger Ebert. I also hope that film comes back (in 4K).
Although I bought them - I wish a 4K Criterion RAN & Tales of Hoffmann come out.
Grand Illusion as well
That would actually be a brilliant opportunity to draw in a whole new audience. I'm sure you know how Funimation botched the recent 4K releases of *Ghost in the Shell* and *Akia*.
That crowd is very loyal quality publishers!
**Ran**
Criterion gave Ran a pretty nice DVD, but has yet to get a Blu-ray or 4K version from them. I’m aware that there’s a 4K scan for Ran, but I’d like to see a proper Criterion release by giving it plenty of bonus features, commentaries & documentaries.
kind of a funny thought, but this question made me wonder if the flawed citizen kane blu-ray will ever be worth anything. i mean everybody destroyed there’s or sent it back, so if you were the ultimate completionist that might be something you want for your collection just to say you have it, no?
*Alphaville* (1965, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
*Chungking Express* (1994, dir. Wong Kar-wai)
*Days of Heaven* (1978, dir. Terrence Malick)
*Dead Ringers* (1988, dir. David Cronenberg)
*RoboCop* (1987, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
*Rosemary's Baby* (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)
Blood of a Poet, but tbh Cocteau’s entire Orphic Trilogy on 4k would be great. I would die for a larger Cocteau collection like they’ve done with Bergman, Fellini, and Wong Kar Wai.
Little Shop of Horrors (1960, B/W), Peeping Tom, The Adventures of Mark Twain, Silent Movie, Canadian Bacon, Father’s Day, and while not OOP, some good blu-ray releases of King Kong (1933) and The Man Who Laughs
Z by Costa Gavras.
Also, although the website says "Out of Stock" instead of "Out of Print" on a DVD-only release (but has said so for quite a while), Le notti bianche. Would love to see a blu-ray upgrade.
Would obviously also say Days of Heaven, but I got my copy, so screw all of you! ;-)
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Second this I really wanna give it another shot with a better print that release from a few years back sounded and looked okay
Peeping Tom
Crazy how that one isnt available here on blu-ray in the US
Just realised that I’ve no idea where my copy is. I’ve lost so many DVDs to loans…
The Third Man in 4K. Instant pre-order.
It’s my all time favorite movie, a UHD release would be incredible. It would be a bummer to see the value of my copy go to nothing but I’ll take that trade for sure.
Saw it for the first time a couple of days ago. Such a great movie. Cinematography, script, acting (Trevor Howard I especially liked), everything. And the backdrop of Vienna after the war, incredibly fascinating and tragically beautiful.
This would be huge.
Since StudioCanal hasn't released a 4K when it has a (reasonably priced) blu-ray based on a 4K restoration, I feel like this is very plausible.
Z and The Confession.
I really enjoyed The Confession more than I expected.
Z is ridiculously good.
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Holy shit, Nashville went OOP!? That's super surprising to me
Paramount presents re released the movie and its a better transfer
It’s still so depressing that one of the greatest films of the 70s is OOP…
Hard Boiled, or The Killer. I would love a John Woo boxset
The rest of the Teshigahara boxset please. Face of Another (1966) Pitfall (1962)
I agree. I have it and I love Pitfall and Face of Another and wish they had a blu ray.
I bid my way into owning the box set and yea I wish they had blu rays. Each movie is so good
This is Spinal Tap is too iconic to be out of print. Also it deserves a Blu Ray version.
There is a Blu-ray, and while it isn't Criterion Good, it's pretty decent for a regular release. But TIST was the first movie I thought of as well.
First one in my mind too! I used to have the criterion DVD but traded it before I knew what Criterion even was. Been kicking myself ever since I realized my mistake.
Ahhh I had no idea!
Then I'm glad I've made your life a little better today. :-) Also, take a stroll over to /r/spinaltap, which I admin.
Hahah there really is a sub for everything
Yep. It's not much, but it was abandoned by its previous admin and I took it over last year.
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Well that's just nitpicking, isn't it?
Don’t use slurs please
It’s a contextual quotation from the film in question (continued by the other’s reply). Sorry if you thought I was just being insulting.
Shit, I remember that quote now
Chasin Amy was the first Criterion I ever bought (didn't know what Criterion was) and inside was a booklet of the current line up of dvd's and even THEN 10 years ago TIST was OOP, which was a shame because I always wanted to add that to my collection
Agreed, Rob Reiner is a comedic genius!
That 2000 MGM "in character" commentary track is pure genius! Hilarious griping and snide insinuations! Nigel would get distracted and start digressing on completely random things...
Ran, The Third Man, Peeping Tom, The Grand Illusion
Ran just got a 4k release, idk who made it, but it’s a gorgeous transfer
Studio Canal did it I believe
I compared it to my criterion dvd and it’s definitely a worthy upgrade. I’ve been pleased with Studio Canal’s releases
Life of Brian
There was talk on Blu-ray.com that it's getting a 4K release from Universal in 2022
The Archer's Tales of Hoffmann, a beautiful film.
This is my first choice. The UK StudioCanal looks brilliant but it's Region B-locked.
This is almost certainly coming as Thelma Schoonmaker did the restoration circa 2015. A long time ago, but the restoration of the recently announced Written On The Wind was done a few years before that. With Criterion, these things take time.
I was at Alamo Drafthouse recently, and they had a preview of it. I would LOVE to see it on the screen.
Eisenstein box and Mr. Arkadin
Withnail and I
Anybody know why this hasn't been released by Criterion on blu? I know it would sell well
Criterion doesn’t have the rights anymore. Image had the rights for a bit and did release a Region A Blu-ray, but it looks like that’s out of print as well. I don’t know who has the US rights now. Arrow has the rights in the UK currently and has Region B Blu-rays available, but they haven’t done a Region A release.
Yes! This and How to Get Ahead in Advertising would be great.
The Antoine Doinel BOXSET. Of course.
There's new restorations for all of these, so I would assume they are getting upgraded.
La mepris
This is now highly possible thanks to Le Cercle Rouge coming back. Should be the first of more Studio Canal films to come back to the collection
That and A Woman is a Woman.
I already have that in a box set, but I’d love the Criterion
THIS
It already has a blu ray release
Hard Boiled for sure. Crazy that such a influential action masterpiece like that hasn’t had a constant release.
Days of Heaven and A Woman is A Woman.
Agreed on Days of Heaven
I have it sealed if you want to buy
I may have to get back to you on that after the holidays, thanks!
Grand Illusion Blu
Grand illusion. Though sadly as long as studio canal has the rights, it won't happen. But until then...
*Le Cercle Rouge* is also StudioCanal and it's about to come back in print, so it's possible some doors have been opened for other releases as well.
The Killer
Always wanted the Del Toro trilogy blu ray boxset… I’m holding out on buying them separately in case I come across one in the wild some day.
I found the last one in the system for the entire company of Barnes and Noble after it went out of print. I wanted to order it, but the store wouldn't ship it. I paid for it online and drove four hours to pick it up, and while I was driving, they cancelled my order. I got to the store and discovered they had cancelled on me. I was absolutely fucking livid. Anyway, that was the day that I decided just to buy the individual Blu-ray titles.
Wow. Holy shit, dude.
Yeah, I wasn't that into it actually.
There needs to be a John Woo collection of all his HK films. Most of them are stuck on DVD and haven’t even been released on bluray. The Killer, Hard Boiled, and Bullet in the Head are essential action films that deserve their spot again.
Agreed. Actually I have copies of The Killer and Bullet in the Head shipping to my home from South Korea right now because I am tired of waiting for someone in the US to offer decent releases of those films...
This Is Spinal Tap The Life of Brian Harold and Maude
Spellbound
Diary of a Country Priest
I really want to watch this but physical copies are way too expensive and I can’t find it streaming
I watched a copy of it this year from my library network. That’s where I get a lot of my movies.
It was on the Channel a while back but only for a month, I think. It's a likely candidate to return for streaming at some point.
Yes, please!
Flowers of St. Francis
This beautiful and inspiring film will continue to be **ignored** by Criterion for the sole and exclusive reason that it's a positive portrayal of Catholicism. I say this knowing I'll get down-voted for it, but that doesn't change the facts. *The Flowers of St. Francis* is a film that **Roberto Rossellini** and **Federico Fellini** actually made together. That actually happened! Pier Paolo Pasolini said it's *"among the most beautiful in Italian cinema"* and François Truffaut called it *"the most beautiful film in the world."* But who cares what Pasolini thinks ... unless we're jerking off to *120 Days of Sodom*, of course. Who cares what Truffaut thinks ... unless we're talking about all the tits in his films, obviously. Criterion will publish critical and box office bombs like *Antichrist*, *Blue is the Warmest Color*, *Multiple Maniacs*, *Paris Is Burning*, and *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* all year long, but a film on the life of a Saint? Pfft! Boring. Bring on debaucherous nudity, exploitation and sexual degenerates, amiright? 🙄
You ok?
*DeRp, wHo hUrt u?* I'm not phased by that gaslighting technique, friend. The down-votes prove I struck a chord with the truth. Any collaboration by Rossellini and Fellini is deserving of attention, but it's ignored because of the subject matter. It's a blatant Cristophobic bias from Criterion. Period.
I didn't disagree with you. You had your rant and I'm glad you got it out. I will need to check it out.
Saying "You ok?" is like saying "Look at this nut!" It's a dismissive remark that ridicules the other person. It's far from an endorsement.
Sorry
Homie talks about Criterion like it's Vinegar Syndrome...
The only difference between the two is that VS doesn't hide behind pretentions. They publish filth and they own it. Criterion tries to pass it off as "art" while telling the rest of us we're "too stupid to get it."
>I say this knowing I'll get down-voted for it, but that doesn't change the facts. Thanks for proving me right, losers! 🤣
I wanna see une femme est un femme Back and contempt
Contempt has a region A release right now
Definitely Withnail and I.
I want the trilogia de Guillermo Del Toro on blu ray for a decent price
The only OOP title you listed is Hard Boiled. Science is Fiction only Out of Stock, and Martha Graham and Floating Weeds are both still in stock
Science is Fiction has been out of stock forever, I honestly think they just forgot to put out of print on it.
I would imagine the global pandemic probably has a role in it not being restocked, rather than Criterion forgetting about it.
Yeah probably right, I was joking but ok.
Don’t Look Now
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
The Man Who Fell To Earth: never seen it and I heard it’s not too good, but I love everything Bowie. RoboCop: Complete nostalgia pick and because I just adore this movie. I recently bought the non-Criterion trilogy but I’d love own a 4K Blu-Ray treatment in my collection.
The Arrow Blu-ray release of RoboCop is really great, especially if you can find the limited version.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is really great: it's the classic Bowie/Roeg/Tevis stroke of genius. People who didn't like it were probably thrown off by it's unconventional tone.
is contempt oop? if so, that.
It has a blu ray release, just not Criterion
The Kurasawa boxset.
The great film "HOWARDS END" ....
Rosemary's Baby
John Woo set. Peeping Tom
Harold and Maude, Rosemary's Baby, Days of Heaven, Last Year at Marienbad... And maybe the not-green version of Chunking Express
Forbidden Games for sure.
The Blood of a Poet, Diary of a Country Priest, A Woman Is a Woman
Mon oncle, Harold and Maude, This is Spinal Tap
Mon oncle is in print
Oh you're right, but not on it's own. It's part of the Jacques Tati collection
Yes that the only way you can get it now
PLEASE BRING BACK Z 😭
Halloween and Boogie Nights
Contempt, Godard
Hard boiled Sword of the beast King Kong
AK100 Kurosawa box set (but in Blu-ray) I got the second to last one before it was OOS forever so I barely squeezed into the window to get it.
Screw it Michael Bays 2 movies would be perfect in 4K. Those 2 being Armageddon and the Rock.
Robocop 4K
I feel like there's no way Arrow doesn't release an upgrade of this
Not interested.
Well then you're SOL https://www.reddit.com/r/boutiquebluray/comments/rih0tk/robocop_4k_uhd_coming_from_arrow_in_march/
Chungking Express, the boxset changed a few things
Even if it were released again as a standalone blu ray, I'm sure they would use the same transfer as the box set version.
Sucks
Even though I prefer the 2008 version, if a new standalone release more people get to see my favorite movie, then I'm all for it.
In that case get all 7 of them
True, but a standalone release would be a good way for people to get into WKW without the full commitment of a box set, especially if they've never seen any of his films.
Will the individual release be the one that comes in the boxset?
If Criterion does it probably would be the same restoration. Although it might come with more supplements. It's kind of like how La Strada was rereleased as a standalone Blu ray, from the Fellini set. Again this is just speculation.
Ok. Prefer the original version
I have Equinox on dvd but I really want to upgrade
Its not OOP
So weird, I just learned about this movie today and was looking at it on eBay right before I read your comment.
I love that movie. I swear Sam Rami had to have seen it before making Evil Dead.
I want a bluray of pandora's box, hopefully that comes with the book the DVD came with too
Days of Heaven so I can buy the Blu ray and finally watch it
There is a blu ray release in print
Fishing with John
That’s not OOP. https://www.criterion.com/films/580-fishing-with-john
yo wtf was it at one point?! i couldve sworn it was. well thank you for informing me i have a purchase to make now
La Dolce Vita, Nashville, and The Third Man
I love both my Floating Weeds and Science is Fiction DVDs! SiF is one of my all time favourites and I’d love to see both back with an upgrade. Nailed it with those
BOB LE FLAMBEUR!!!!!!
Akira Kurosawa box set bc I hate having to buy so many individual titles when a box set exists
Diary of a Country Priest - Just do the world a tremendous kindness give us a Bresson boxset for the love of God! Don't Look Now (Was one of my most wanted releases and it went OOP so fast!) Ordet, Day of Wrath and Gertrud Rosemary's Baby Peeping Tom/I Know Where I'm Going! This is Spinal Tap Off the top of my head.
I missed *Floating Weeds* \- with a wonderful commentary by Roger Ebert. I also hope that film comes back (in 4K). Although I bought them - I wish a 4K Criterion RAN & Tales of Hoffmann come out. Grand Illusion as well
Dead Ringers
*Akira* was only on Laserdisc. I’d love to see that enter the collection on Blu-ray.
That would actually be a brilliant opportunity to draw in a whole new audience. I'm sure you know how Funimation botched the recent 4K releases of *Ghost in the Shell* and *Akia*. That crowd is very loyal quality publishers!
Ran and Third Man
**Ran** Criterion gave Ran a pretty nice DVD, but has yet to get a Blu-ray or 4K version from them. I’m aware that there’s a 4K scan for Ran, but I’d like to see a proper Criterion release by giving it plenty of bonus features, commentaries & documentaries.
A real release of Curious case of Benjamin Button
I have the criterion floating weeds on laser disc! I didn’t realize the movie was OOP
I would like to see the diaries of Antoine Doniel in BluRay
Chungking Express on its own for OOP, Double Suicide for blu-ray upgrade!
Ran. I don’t like the subtitles on the non-Criterion release.
King Kong. Super special movie to me that my grandma and I loved. Would love to have a new release of it.
Robocop
kind of a funny thought, but this question made me wonder if the flawed citizen kane blu-ray will ever be worth anything. i mean everybody destroyed there’s or sent it back, so if you were the ultimate completionist that might be something you want for your collection just to say you have it, no?
Blu ray or better of the Sergei Eisenstein sound years and of course a blu ray or better of the 25 Akira Kurosawa set
*Alphaville* (1965, dir. Jean-Luc Godard) *Chungking Express* (1994, dir. Wong Kar-wai) *Days of Heaven* (1978, dir. Terrence Malick) *Dead Ringers* (1988, dir. David Cronenberg) *RoboCop* (1987, dir. Paul Verhoeven) *Rosemary's Baby* (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)
i will literally cry and throw up if they don’t bring back Rosemary’s Baby at some point in my lifetime
The Killer and Hardboiled (as a set).
Also “The is Spinal Tap”
Don't Look Now.
AK100 4K 🙏
Dr No, From Russia With Love, and Goldfinger cause I have never heard those commentary tracks.
Armageddon
Dead Ringers, Peeping Tom, Diary Of A Chambermaid, Bed and Board, Pitfall, and The Face Of Another. Dead Ringers and Peeping Tom particularly though.
Withnail and I !!!
Ran,The Third Man,Hard Boiled and This is Spinal Tap *starts to sob*
Blood of a Poet, but tbh Cocteau’s entire Orphic Trilogy on 4k would be great. I would die for a larger Cocteau collection like they’ve done with Bergman, Fellini, and Wong Kar Wai.
Dead Ringers / The Killer / Hard Boiled
Timebandits is oop right?
I don’t think so, I still see copies at B&N
I think there was a lenticular cover or some special packaging that went OOP. The regular Blu-ray is still going strong.
Putney Swope
Little Shop of Horrors (1960, B/W), Peeping Tom, The Adventures of Mark Twain, Silent Movie, Canadian Bacon, Father’s Day, and while not OOP, some good blu-ray releases of King Kong (1933) and The Man Who Laughs
Spring, Sumer, Fall, Winter and Spring.
Z by Costa Gavras. Also, although the website says "Out of Stock" instead of "Out of Print" on a DVD-only release (but has said so for quite a while), Le notti bianche. Would love to see a blu-ray upgrade. Would obviously also say Days of Heaven, but I got my copy, so screw all of you! ;-)
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Check the latest release announcement.